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Prime Minister Netanyahu at Holocaust Museum Site in Thessaloniki
(Prime Minister's Office) Prime Minister Netanyahu said Thursday: "Thessaloniki is a famous city in Jewish history and in Greek history and these histories were intertwined from the fourth century BCE....My father was a great scholar of the Spanish Inquisition and he often talked to me about where did the Jews go and many of them went here, and of course half this city, by the beginning of the 20th century, was composed of Jewish people." "The Nazi fire destroyed about 95% of this extraordinary and proud Jewish community [but]...didn't destroy everyone." On "the Island of Zakynthos...the German commander said: 'Give me a list of the Jews' and the Bishop and the Mayor brought a list of the Jews, their two names. They said: 'This is our Jews. Take us.' We honor these two great heroes among the righteous among the nations in Yad Vashem, an institution that will work with this museum." Prime Minister Netanyahu then attended a ceremony in which the son of a survivor of the 1953 earthquake on the island of Cephalonia read a letter of gratitude - which was written by survivors - to the State of Israel for the assistance of the Israeli navy. Israeli navy vessels were among the first to reach the island following the earthquake.